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Americans With Four-Year Degrees Now Comprise a Record 25% of Unemployed Workers

Americans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment, underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year.

Government-shutdown delayed monthly figures published Thursday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier. Other levels of education, by contrast, registered little or no increase over the same period.

College-Educated Job Loss Rises | White-collar slowdown hits four-year degrees© Department of Labor, Bloomberg

There were more than 1.9 million Americans aged 25 and over with at least a bachelor’s degree who were unemployed in September — one in four of the total number of unemployed. Before 2025, the ratio never reached such a high in data going back to 1992. Younger, recent college grads have also been struggling to find work.

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